Anyone Can Share Torrents

TorrentFreak just released this article entitled: How To Share Torrents With BitTorrent Illiterates.

You know, we created Podmailing to enable anyone to share files of any size - and especially illiterates. We made it to solve the problems of our computer illiterate friends actually.

And now that we have added the Http delivery feature, you are absolutely sure that the recipient of your large files will receive them easily with Podmailing. Without knowing a thing about torrents. Even if it's several GBs.

Maybe you know, in fact that Podmailing is based on BitTorrent, which makes it the most efficient BitTorrent client for sharing files among computer illiterates. And still it's a very efficient solution also for geeks, cause we provide tons of bandwidth and it's free. At least that's how I feel. What do you think?

Comments

[Fenriz]

Sounds similar to Pando, less the rabid commercialization and file size limits. Pando doesn't state it uses bittorrent protocol for it's p2p, but several posts in the developer forum suggest it does.

My complaint would be the same I levy against Pando: requiring recipients to download and install software to get the files. No matter how simple a process the download and installation is, it's discouraging baggage for infrequent or one-time file transfers. I would never install software in order to receive someone's file, nor would I ever ask anyone else to do so.

The direct http downloads your offer a step toward dedicated client freedom, but why not bundle torrent files with a BitComet Lite-like no-install, lightweight, disposable bittorrent client so that file recipients need download only the small bundle and let it run, and the utility takes care of the rest (and ideally then deletes itself or suggests the recipient do so)?

The non-technical download paradigm is one click to link, one click to approve download. Anything more complex than that is still going to run into issues of limited adoption.

[Louis Choquel]

Thanks for your feedback Fenriz.

I like the BitComet Lite concept. But it has an issue with computer illiterates though: a ".exe" is a pretty scary thing to download these days. Even for people who don't worry about viruses, a ".exe" triggers a lot of warning messages from the browser and the OS.

Another discrepancy is that if you have several files to download, then you will be running one BitTorrent client for each, which is far from optimal.